Full Throttle FT-9209 Cudahy’s 34’ Woodside Updated Reefer Set | 2-Car Set

Cudahy Packing Company (est.1887) in Omaha, Nebraska, one of the largest meat packing houses in the USA, relocated it's headquarters to Chicago in 1911, and incorporated in Maine in 1915. By 1922, Cudahy listed distribution operations in 97 American cities. Cudahy introduced Old Dutch Cleanser which was acquired by PUREX in 1955 and absorbed by The Dial Corp. in 1985. After WWII, CPC headquarters were moved to Omaha, NE, and finally to Phoenix, AZ in 1956, renaming itself Cudahy Company. The Cudahy meatpacking business was acquired by Bar-S Foods Company in 1981.

At the turn of the 19th Century, during America's Industrial Revolution, Railroads refurbished many of their well-built older wood-side cars for more modern use employing steel underframes, Bettendorf trucks, and new brake systems.